In the absence of suitable tools, if Huang Quan rashly sent soldiers to directly destroy the city gate sealed by Zhang Long's department, it was very likely that the soldiers who started the construction would be injured.

At the beginning, the soldiers in charge of sealing the city gate of Zhang Long's department still needed to carry stones from the mountainous area far away from the county seat, but later, Huang Quan's department only had time to open the city gate, and it was too late to clean up these bricks and stones, which was equivalent to leaving the tools to seal the city gate in place.

As for why Huang Quan didn't attack Zhang Long's department on the city wall with bows and arrows, rolling wood and stones, and other city defense weapons?

It's a bit embarrassing to say the reason!

It turned out that before, under Liu Zhang's rule, the successive Taishou or Niuluo County magistrates who were key to the county did not attach great importance to their own armaments, especially the previous Niuchuang County magistrate, during his tenure, he only knew that he was against his friends in the county government. Not only was it overhead by his subordinates, but it was also very close to Chengdu City, so it became a dark place under the lights.

In the case of a serious shortage of weapons and equipment in this county, the weapons that remained in the county treasury, the good ones were sold to the barbarians of the four counties in Nanzhong by the subordinates of Niu Break County, and the rest of the weapons left in the treasury were all rotten and unusable, even if the barbarians were stupid, they would not be stupid enough to spend money on such things. After Huang Quan arrived, when he was rectifying the city's armaments, he immediately discovered this situation.

It's a pity that Zhang Ren and the others were not angry and lost too quickly, and Jin Jue attached too much importance to him, so he didn't leave enough time for Huang Quan to send troops to block him in Niuluo County in time. Huang Quan had indeed written a document requesting the transfer of some armaments to Chengdu City, but until Niuju County was besieged, this document could not be passed on to the officials who managed this matter.

Because, Yizhou Bing Cao was dismissed by Liu Zhang and returned home after Zhang Ren's defeat, and Liu Zhang did not have time to find a suitable person to take over this position, and in addition, the relevant subordinate officials in Yizhou knew that Liu Zhang had suspicion of Huang Quan, so the documents were delayed, and Huang Quan was pitted.

The soldiers in the county town of Niuluo, except for some very simple Changge with replaced wooden handles, had very little equipment in their hands to attack the enemy outside the city from a long distance. And the more than 10,000 Shu soldiers that Huang Quan brought back from Ba County, his hometown Anhan County, were copied by the Ban Yu barbarians, and they were successively defeated under the county seat of Langzhong County and south of Micang Dao. Before they could replenish their military supplies and weapons, they were left here by Liu Zhang with Huang Quan.

It can be said that it is extremely unlucky, fortunately, Shu is rich, no matter how greedy the local officials are, they do not dare to sell the grain in the treasury short, therefore, although two-thirds of the grain stored in the granary in the city is inedible, three years or more decayed old grain, but the remaining one-third is enough for everyone in Niuluo County to maintain more than two years of continuous food.

On the contrary, under the city, Zhang Long was so extravagant that he could use the water-soaked Shu brocade as a shield to block the attack of the defenders in the city.

If stones were thrown at the top of the city, this kind of defense would naturally have no effect.

However, the number of stones in the city was small, and those thrown down were quickly blocked by the materials that blocked the city gates.

The number of soldiers brought out of the city by Huang Quan to open the city gate naturally cannot be too much, but there are fewer people, and they cannot carry out rotation operations like Zhang Long's department, so the speed of opening the city gate will drop significantly. Moreover, as time goes by, the soldiers who go out of the city to be responsible for sabotaging the plans of the Jin Jue army will become slower and slower to open the city gates.

Not only that, Zhang Long actually had the patience to last this seemingly extremely inefficient earthwork for three whole days, and at this moment, even Huang Quan's own patience had been completely worn out, which made the morale of the soldiers in Niuluo County decline faster.

In the end, it was Huang Quan who took the initiative to give up this futile approach, and retreated back to the county seat of Niuzhuang County with the soldiers who went out of the city with him, and let Zhang Long completely seal the four city gates of Niuzhuang County.

Mahan came to take over, can it not be easy?

Of course, later, Jin Jue saw Zhang Long, praised him, and warned him that this method was limited to relatively small cities. Not to mention Chengdu City, even other county governance cannot adopt this method.

First, the size of the city is more than twice as large as that of the general county seat.

Second, the Jinghua of Yizhou is in Guanghan County and Shu County, and in counties like Jianwei County, the number of barbarians is more than that of the Han people, and the scale of the county towns under its rule is even smaller. Jin Jue heard that even the county government is one-third smaller than the county government of Ba County.

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Wangshan runs a dead horse, in fact, Wangcheng can also run a dead horse.

Half an hour had passed since Zhang Long said that he could see Chengdu City, and the 10,000 soldiers of the Jin Jue Army patrolling the city slowly came to the north gate of Chengdu City.

At this time, Chengdu City had already closed all the city gates.

Wang Shang was the first to get this 'bad' news, and immediately sent someone to report to Liu Zhang that Jin Jue's army had suddenly sent troops to invade Chengdu.

Liu Zhang was so frightened that he almost peed his pants, the key was that he was scared by Lu Bu.

After sending the messenger, Liu Zhang did not rush to gather all the subordinate officials in Chengdu, but summoned all his henchmen to his study.

Liu Zhang looked at these subordinates in front of him, held back the anger in his heart, and asked in a deep voice: "You all already know the situation, let's talk about it!" What does Jin Juejun want to do here? ”

Before, almost everyone said that Jin Jue's army would definitely not send troops to attack Chengdu City in winter, but now Jin Jue's actions have slapped everyone present in a resounding slap.

The civil officials had a good face, but they couldn't understand the reason for it for a while, and they lowered their heads one by one, not knowing whether they were thinking about countermeasures, or they were simply avoiding Liu Zhang's gaze that was almost like cannibalism.

In the end, it was Zhang Ren who spoke first and said, "My lord, my subordinates estimate that Jin Juejun is here for nothing more than two purposes.

First, Yang Wei.

To say something that makes you unhappy, Jin Jue's dispatch of troops this time must have expected that Chengdu City would not send troops to meet the battle, so he only sent 10,000 soldiers without fear.

Second, temptation.

I heard from the scouts that although the enemy's strength was small this time, the generals who commanded the troops, in addition to Jin Jue himself, also Lu Bu and his two fierce generals, Cheng Lian and Wei Yan, were just to test the strength of our army. ”

"You've said so much, do you have any ideas for a solution?" Hearing this, Liu Zhang nodded and asked again.

"Lord Qi, there is no solution to this at all." Zhang Ren shook his head and replied.